Red Tail Bass at Wanahoo

Decided to get out a little early today but apparently it wasn’t early enough! I got to the lake and noticed a lot of trailers in the parking lot, a lot of big boats, wrapped trucks and sponsored boats.. definitely a local tournament going on at the lake today. That’s OK though, with my small boat I can easily get into places a lot of the bigger boats can’t reach.

I started off fishing the pier by the ramp and then moved onto the shallow grass just to the north of it. I did catch a green sunfish pretty quickly and then hooked into a small pike off of the pier which is always a good time!

After fishing around some of the bigger boats I decided to head for more difficult waters. I went under the bridge and back around to the back side (west side) of the island. Here even in my little boat my trolling motor was kicking up mud and I was pumping into trees and stumps, but it was worth it! I love this little spot though, its hard to get to and most big boats can’t even touch it. Sometimes working hard and getting to not well known places pays huge dividends!

I started throwing a bass jig and trailer as well as square bill crank bait that didn’t have a rattle. Both turned out to be golden! I started catching multiple bass all 2 pounds or better, the biggest was just barely over 4! The interesting thing about it was that all of the bass and even the pike I caught all had red fins and tails! Very unique. The fishing were crushing the lures and I often had to use pliers to get the lures from deep within the fish’s mouth.

After fishing around the island and catching around 7 or 8 bass, all 15+ inches I decided to move on and try fishing around some of the other trees without much luck.

Once I was done fishing I talked with someone I knew who was in the tournament a few days later and they said they had caught a few smaller fish but only had one that they checked in for the tournament. I don’t know what the winning weights were but I think I would have had 5 by myself that would have done well. So that made me feel pretty good!

Lake Ranking: 5 Star

This lake always produces good fish. Even during a tournament day I was able to pull off a pretty good bag of fish. Its a great place to catch big fish and a lot of numbers of fish. It’s a busy lake but still big enough for everyone!